Detecting and preventing advanced attacks isn't just a technology issue - it's a business risk that needs to be elevated to the highest levels of an organization. Trend Micro's Tom Kellermann shares strategies.
Among the major data breaches reported during the week of July 28 was an incident at Irish online gambling site Paddy Power that impacted 650,000 customers. View this week's infographic of the top five breaches for the week.
Members of the Mozilla Developer Network, the software company's online development community, are being alerted about an accidental disclosure that exposed e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords.
A U.S. appeals court has agreed to hear Wyndham Worldwide's appeal regarding what authority the FTC has over corporate data security. The dispute stems from a suit the FTC brought against the hotel chain following three payment card data breaches.
Brian Cornell, newly appointed CEO of Target Corp., faces the challenge of ensuring that the protection of customer information is a top priority at the company following last year's massive data breach.
Riverside Health System is notifying 2,000 cancer patients about a breach that involves alleged identity theft. It's the second security incident involving an insider at Riverside since last December.
An unencrypted laptop computer stolen from an administrative office at Self Regional Healthcare in Greenwood, S.C., apparently wound up at the bottom of a lake. Find out the details.
Read our roundup of three recent healthcare data breaches that affected patients at Haley Chiropractic Clinic in Tacoma, Wash; Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan; and the Indian Health Service.
A "highly sophisticated Chinese state-sponsored actor" is responsible for a recent data breach at the National Research Council of Canada, according to Canada's chief information officer.
The federal tally of major health data breaches has grown substantially in recent weeks. Incidents added over the last month provide examples of the variety of risks that healthcare entities continue to battle.
An alleged hacker based in the United Kingdom has been indicted for a third time. The latest charges allege he infiltrated computers at several U.S. government agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services.
Are Hamas' cyber capabilities as potent as its kinetic weaponry? Israeli cybersecurity providers consider the impact of cyber-attacks on their businesses and the nation.
The Massachusetts attorney general has reached a $150,000 HIPAA settlement with a Rhode Island hospital in the wake of a 2012 data breach that affected 14,000 patients, most of whom were from Massachusetts.
A California court has given final approval for a settlement in a consolidated class action lawsuit against the insurer Health Net related to a 2011 breach that affected about 2 million individuals. Find out the terms of the settlement.
Point-of-sale retail breaches are the rage, but they are just one cyber-crime trend on the mind of RSA researcher Uri Fleyder. What are the malware and mobile threats that organizations should monitor?
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